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Cecil Travis

Cecil Howell Travis

Positions: Shortstop, Third Baseman and Rightfielder
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 1", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 8, 1913 in Riverdale, GA
High School: Riverdale (Riverdale, GA) (All Transactions)
Debut: May 16, 1933
Team: Senators 1933-1947

Final Game: September 23, 1947
Died: December 16, 2006 in Riverdale, GA
Buried: Crest Lawn Memorial Park, Atlanta, GA
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:22AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #493. Cliff Floyd… #494. Wally Moses… #495. Billy Nash… #496. CECIL TRAVIS… #497. Walker Cooper… #498. Kevin Mitchell… #499. Hank Sauer… 

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1933 19 WSH AL 18 46 43 7 13 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 5 .302 .348 .326 .673 80 14 1 0 5
1934 20 WSH AL 109 428 392 48 125 22 4 1 53 1 5 24 37 .319 .361 .403 .764 100 158 2 10 5
1935 21 WSH AL 138 590 534 85 170 27 8 0 61 4 2 41 28 .318 .377 .399 .776 103 213 9 6 *5O
1936 22 WSH AL 138 561 517 77 164 34 10 2 92 4 4 39 21 .317 .366 .433 .800 102 224 1 4 6O/45
1937 23 WSH AL 135 578 526 72 181 27 7 3 66 3 2 39 34 .344 .395 .439 .834 114 231 5 8 *6 MVP-11
1938 24 WSH AL 146 642 567 96 190 30 5 5 67 6 5 58 22 .335 .401 .432 .833 115 245 4 13 *6 AS,MVP-9
1939 25 WSH AL 130 522 476 55 139 20 9 5 63 0 3 34 25 .292 .342 .403 .745 96 192 9 2 10 *6
1940 26 WSH AL 136 584 528 60 170 37 11 2 76 0 1 48 23 .322 .381 .445 .826 120 235 5 2 6 *56 AS,MVP-23
1941 27 WSH AL 152 663 608 106 218 39 19 7 101 2 2 52 25 .359 .410 .520 .930 150 316 13 1 2 *65 AS,MVP-6
1945 31 WSH AL 15 60 54 4 13 2 1 0 10 0 1 4 5 .241 .293 .315 .608 84 17 3 0 2 5
1946 32 WSH AL 137 519 465 45 117 22 3 1 56 2 4 45 47 .252 .323 .318 .641 84 148 17 4 5 65
1947 33 WSH AL 74 221 204 10 44 4 1 1 10 1 3 16 19 .216 .273 .260 .533 50 53 4 0 1 56
12 Seasons 1328 5414 4914 665 1544 265 78 27 657 23 32 402 291 .314 .370 .416 .786 108 2046 51 31 67
162 Game Avg. 162 660 599 81 188 32 10 3 80 3 4 49 35 .314 .370 .416 .786 108 250 4 8

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1933 19 WSH AL 46 -1 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 0.2 1 0.1 0.1 $ 5
1934 20 WSH AL 428 -2 -2 0 0 4 2 14 16 1.6 12 1.2 0.4 $ 5
1935 21 WSH AL 590 8 2 0 0 6 1 19 36 3.5 30 2.9 0.6 $ *5O
1936 22 WSH AL 561 3 0 0 0 -2 2 19 22 2.1 24 2.3 -0.2 $ 6O/45
1937 23 WSH AL 578 12 -1 0 0 8 8 18 45 4.4 37 3.6 0.8 $ *6 MVP-11
1938 24 WSH AL 642 15 0 0 0 4 9 20 48 4.6 44 4.3 0.3 $ *6 AS,MVP-9
1939 25 WSH AL 522 -6 -2 0 0 5 8 17 22 2.3 17 1.6 0.7 $ *6
1940 26 WSH AL 584 13 -2 0 0 -1 1 15 26 2.6 27 2.6 0.0 $ *56 AS,MVP-23
1941 27 WSH AL 663 47 3 0 0 -8 9 17 68 6.8 76 7.6 -0.8 $ *65 AS,MVP-6
1945 31 WSH AL 60 -1 0 0 0 -1 0 1 -1 -0.1 0 0.0 -0.1 $ 5
1946 32 WSH AL 519 -10 -1 0 0 -10 5 14 -2 -0.3 8 0.9 -1.2 $ 65
1947 33 WSH AL 221 -13 -2 0 0 -1 1 6 -9 -1.1 -8 -0.9 -0.2 $ 56
12 Seasons 5414 65 -5 0 0 5 46 162 273 26.6 268 26.2 0.4 $

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1933 WSH AL 19 3B 15 39 8 30 1 1 .974 2.53 .954 2.92
1934 WSH AL 20 3B 99 318 88 210 20 23 .937 3.01 .943 3.09
1935 WSH AL 21 3B 114 405 136 254 15 29 .963 3.42 .947 3.05
1935 WSH AL 21 OF 16 33 28 4 1 1 .970 2.00 .970 2.39
1935 WSH AL 21 LF 16 16 15 33 28 4 1 1 .970 2.00 .968 2.24
1936 WSH AL 22 SS 71 371 135 213 23 53 .938 4.90 .950 5.35
1936 WSH AL 22 OF 53 103 91 6 6 1 .942 1.83 .968 2.38
1936 WSH AL 22 2B 4 27 16 10 1 4 .963 6.50 .972 5.78
1936 WSH AL 22 3B 2 5 2 2 1 0 .800 2.00 .946 3.15
1936 WSH AL 22 RF 52 49 46 99 89 5 5 1 .949 1.81 .967 2.18
1936 WSH AL 22 LF 1 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 .750 3.00 .962 2.10
1937 WSH AL 23 SS 129 648 229 396 23 99 .965 4.84 .955 5.23 MVP-11
1938 WSH AL 24 SS 143 801 304 457 40 113 .950 5.32 .953 5.17 AS,MVP-9
1939 WSH AL 25 SS 118 577 194 359 24 74 .958 4.69 .950 5.16
1940 WSH AL 26 3B 113 408 116 265 27 30 .934 3.37 .937 3.21 AS,MVP-23
1940 WSH AL 26 SS 23 134 48 75 11 20 .918 5.35 .949 4.85 AS,MVP-23
1941 WSH AL 27 SS 136 692 279 388 25 99 .964 4.90 .948 4.96 AS,MVP-6
1941 WSH AL 27 3B 16 55 14 39 2 4 .964 3.31 .947 3.28 AS,MVP-6
1945 WSH AL 31 3B 14 50 18 28 4 4 .920 3.29 .948 3.16
1946 WSH AL 32 SS 75 343 133 196 14 45 .959 4.39 .954 4.97
1946 WSH AL 32 3B 56 165 54 94 17 15 .897 2.64 .948 3.06
1947 WSH AL 33 3B 39 103 28 68 7 6 .932 2.46 .959 3.01
1947 WSH AL 33 SS 15 71 25 44 2 9 .972 4.60 .964 5.13
8 Seasons SS 710 3637 1347 2128 162 512 .955 4.89 .952 5.12
9 Seasons 3B 468 1548 464 990 94 112 .939 3.11 .945 3.10
2 Seasons OF 69 136 119 10 7 2 .949 1.87 .968 2.38
1 Season RF 52 49 46 99 89 5 5 1 .949 1.81 .967 2.18
2 Seasons LF 17 17 15 37 30 5 2 1 .946 2.06 .967 2.23
1 Season 2B 4 27 16 10 1 4 .963 6.50 .972 5.78
12 Seasons TOT 1251 5348 1946 3138 264 630 .951 4.06 .950 4.22
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

All-Star Games
1938
1940 (3B)
1941 (3B)

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1937 AL (11, 15%)
1938 AL (9, 10%)
1940 AL (23, 1%)
1941 AL (6, 30%)
0.56 Career Shares (409th)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1941 AL  6.8 (5th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1937 AL  4.4 (9th)
1938 AL  4.6 (10th)
1941 AL  6.8 (3rd)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1941 AL  7.6 (3rd)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1937 AL  0.8 (5th)
1939 AL  0.7 (7th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1937 AL  .344 (5th)
1938 AL  .335 (5th)
1940 AL  .322 (8th)
1941 AL  .359 (2nd)
Career  .314 (76th)

On-Base% s c a p y
1941 AL  .410 (7th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1941 AL  .520 (6th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1941 AL  .930 (5th)

Games Played s c a p y
1941 AL  152 (8th)

At Bats s c a p y
1941 AL  608 (3rd)

Plate Appearances s c a p y
1941 AL  663 (10th)

Runs Scored s c a p y
1941 AL  106 (5th)

Hits s c a p y
1938 AL  190 (9th)
1941 AL  218 (1st)

Total Bases s c a p y
1941 AL  316 (4th)

Doubles s c a p y
1941 AL  39 (4th)

Triples s c a p y
1940 AL  11 (7th)
1941 AL  19 (2nd)

Runs Batted In s c a p y
1941 AL  101 (9th)

Singles s c a p y
1935 AL  135 (7th)
1937 AL  144 (6th)
1938 AL  150 (3rd)
1941 AL  153 (1st)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1941 AL  150 (5th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1941 AL  129 (4th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1941 AL  42 (5th)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1941 AL  4.0 (5th)

Extra Base Hits s c a p y
1941 AL  65 (6th)

Times On Base s c a p y
1941 AL  271 (4th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1941 AL  .744 (5th)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1935 AL  9 (1st)
1937 AL  5 (7th)
1938 AL  4 (7th)
1946 AL  4 (4th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1938 AL  13 (4th)

Double Plays Grounded Into s c a p y
1946 AL  17 (4th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1936 AL  24.6 (7th)
1938 AL  25.8 (6th)
1939 AL  19.0 (8th)
1940 AL  23.0 (6th)
1941 AL  24.3 (5th)
Career  16.9 (205th)

Assists† s c a p y
1938 AL  457 (2nd)
1941 AL  427 (4th)

Errors Committed† s c a p y
1938 AL  40 (3rd)
1940 AL  38 (2nd)
1946 AL  31 (4th)

Assists as 3B s c a p y
1935 AL  254 (3rd)

Errors Committed as 3B s c a p y
1934 AL  20 (5th)
1940 AL  27 (4th)
1946 AL  17 (1st)

Def. Games as SS s c a p y
1938 AL  143 (3rd)
1939 AL  118 (4th)
1941 AL  136 (4th)

Putouts as SS s c a p y
1938 AL  304 (3rd)
1939 AL  194 (4th)
1941 AL  279 (3rd)

Assists as SS s c a p y
1938 AL  457 (2nd)
1939 AL  359 (4th)
1941 AL  388 (5th)

Errors Committed as SS s c a p y
1938 AL  40 (2nd)

Range Factor/Game as 3B s c a p y
1934 AL  3.01 (3rd)
1935 AL  3.42 (2nd)
1940 AL  3.37 (2nd)

Fielding % as 3B s c a p y
1934 AL  .937 (5th)
1935 AL  .963 (2nd)
1940 AL  .934 (5th)

Range Factor/Game as SS s c a p y
1938 AL  5.32 (3rd)
1939 AL  4.69 (4th)
1941 AL  4.90 (4th)
Career  4.89 (85th)

Fielding % as SS s c a p y
1937 AL  .965 (2nd)
1939 AL  .958 (3rd)
1941 AL  .964 (2nd)

Youngest s c a p y
1933 AL  born 1913-08-08 (2nd)
1934 AL  born 1913-08-08 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 3 (523), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 38 (647), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 52 (377), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 30 (328), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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  8. Placido Polanco (891)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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